LISA MCKINNON/THE STAR Longtime Ventura favorite Johnny's Fine Mexican Food will be the first stop on an unofficial taco crawl organized by local Yelpers.

LISA MCKINNON/THE STAR Sunset magazine in 1996 included Johnny's Fine Mexican Food in Ventura on its list of "The West's best burritos." Its tacos will be the focus of a "taco crawl" organized as an unofficial event by area Yelpers.

Of all the Mexican restaurants on Ventura Avenue in downtown Ventura, which one makes the best tacos?

The question is guaranteed to start an argument — one that organizers of the inaugural UYE Avenue Taco Crawl hope to help settle.

UYE means Unofficial Yelp Event, said Rachel Watt, an avid user of the online repository for crowd-sourced reviews about restaurants and other businesses.

The idea for the Taco Crawl started as a debate on a Yelp Talk thread about area taco stands, said Watt, who posted the first of her 390 Yelp reviews last year and is now considered an Elite user of the service.

"One person said to another, 'You've lived your whole life in Ventura and you've never been to Johnny's?' and it kind of went from there," Watt said with a laugh.

She and fellow Yelp Elite members René and Anna Aldaba are the masterminds behind the crawl, which is open to the public.

It will start at 1:30 p.m. Aug. 7, when participants are asked to gather at Johnny's Mexican Food, the first of five planned stops.

Watt recommends wearing comfortable walking shoes and bringing about $40 in cash for food and drinks, "just to be on the safe side."

The featured restaurants dot a 1-mile stretch of the Avenue. Organizers were forced to nix some restaurants from the list because they are too far away and/or have early Sunday closing times, Watt said.

Other locations not included on the first crawl make a good excuse to organize another, she added.

During a trial-run crawl last weekend with Anna Aldaba, "I found out that I had two tacos and I was full. So I'm going to pace myself," Watt said, laughing again. "I'm thinking that, during the crawl, we'll order a certain number of tacos and share."

Can't make it on Aug. 7? You can retrace the Taco Crawlers' steps by visiting the following restaurants, listed in order of street address. The crawl may visit them in a different order, depending on individual restaurant's hours:

The local Yelpers previously organized a gathering at Fresco II on the Marina in Oxnard and are in talks with another Oxnard restaurant to organize an event tied to its grand opening, said Watt.

"I've met some of the best people through Yelp," she said. "We get together and have a lot of fun. I hope a lot of people come out for this event — whether or not they're into Yelp."

Lisa McKinnon is a staff writer for The Star. Her Cafe Society column appears in the Sunday Life section and Fridays in the Time Out section. For between-column updates, follow 805foodie on Twitter and Instagram and "like" the Facebook page VCS Eats. Please send email to lisa.mckinnon@vcstar.com.